FDA officials also raided another facility where sanitisers were manufactured by using floor cleaning chemical and seized around 1,000 bottles of sanitisers and raw material during the raid.

The action comes less than a week after FDA officials raided two similar outfits that were engaged in the manufacturing of unlicensed sanitisers.

In the first case, fake sanitisers worth over Rs 2 lakh were seized from a Kandivli distributor, Riddhi Siddhi. In the second one, a Vakola-based firm, Sanskar Ayurved, was raided for selling fake products under the name of ‘Safe Hands’.

The demand for hand sanitisers has soared exponentially in the last three months in wake of the coronavirus scare.